00:00I regret not saying I love you enough to my family.
00:04Bonjour Elle, I'm Jane Fonda.
00:09I will always regret things that I did not say.
00:13You know, it's always what you didn't do that you regret at the end.
00:17I regret not saying I love you enough to my family, for example, and my children and my friends.
00:24And so the lesson is, say it while you're alive.
00:29Do and say the things that you know you will regret if you don't.
00:33This is why it's important to think about the end of your life.
00:37This may not be true in France.
00:39I sometimes think the French are much smarter than we are in the United States.
00:44We're so afraid of dying.
00:46We're so afraid of getting old.
00:48The French less so.
00:50It's one of the things that make French women so beautiful.
00:52They're not afraid of aging.
00:53So while you are still alive, think about the kinds of things you would regret when you get to the
01:00end of your life and make sure that you do them.
01:04There is very little about my youth that I miss.
01:09I miss skiing.
01:10I miss riding horses.
01:11I don't really miss anything important from my youth.
01:14I'm grateful to have lived this long.
01:16Definitely my relationship with my image has become more amical.
01:22For the first many, many decades of my life, I was with people who judged how I looked.
01:28Was I thin enough?
01:30Was I pretty enough?
01:31All of that.
01:32And so I was always anxious about the physical part of me.
01:36As I've gotten older, my life has more meaning.
01:42When I went to Vietnam, North Vietnam during the war, the Vietnam War in 1972, in order to stop the
01:50bombing, the American bombing of the dikes of North Vietnam.
01:55And I came back with evidence that we were doing that.
01:59And the bombing of the dikes stopped two months later.
02:02So I felt that was the most important proof to me that speaking up can matter.
02:07I've learned that all of us need to feel that we have a purpose in life, that our life has
02:13meaning.
02:13So my main advice would be use your voice.
02:17Speak up.
02:18When you see something that you feel is wrong, don't be afraid to say it.
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